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Comcast is hiring 200 employees for its Elmhurst customer service facility with one overriding goal in mind: get the cable guy to arrive on time.
The announcement Wednesday nearly doubles staffing for the technician support and logistics teams, which are...

TV's most memorable and most-watched commercials will no longer be relegated to the TV set.
For nearly half a century, the only way for the average consumer to see all the glitzy commercials that accompanied the Super Bowl was to watch a broadcast of the...

The 606, a 2.7-mile stretch of elevated tracks converted into a Park District trail, has been a hot spot for visitors since it opened in June.
The park and trail system linking Wicker Park, Bucktown, Humboldt Park and Logan Square on Chicago's...

Even as TV watchers increasingly go online, AT&T has become the country's biggest traditional TV provider with its $48.5 billion purchase of DirecTV. It got its regulatory approval Friday from the Federal Communications Commission after more than a...

Comcast isn't suffering the effects of cord cutting quite as fast as many expected, given the increasingly wide array of options for people looking to use Internet video as an alternative to cable television. Comcast did lose 69,000 video customers over...

Dear Help Squad,
What are the best options for home phone, cable TV and internet? Are there any choices besides Comcast and AT&T? I would especially be interested in speed, reliability and cost for unbundled internet. We will use the service for...

With cable cord cutting and online video consumption on the rise, providing faster Internet speeds has become a high priority for Comcast, which now has more Internet customers than cable subscribers.Comcast announced Monday that it is raising the ...

Willowbrook, IL…. Are you looking for a job or a new career? State Senator Christine Radogno (R-Lemont), State Representative Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) and Representative Ron Sandack (R-Downers Grove) invite you to participate in their Jobs Fair on...

Comcast will launch a streaming video service as it faces growing intrusions from companies like Netflix and a rising number of customers who are becoming more mobile, using tablets and phones for entertainment.
The nation's largest cable company said...

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The Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's is being taken over — by minions.The retro-themed restaurant in Chicago is getting a limited-edition makeover as part of McDonald's promotional tie-ins to the "Minions" movie.The River North restaurant's massive...

Donald Trump stopped in Chicago on Monday to warn people about the dangers of illegal immigration and explain why he should be elected president of the most powerful nation on the planet.
I couldn't help thinking that Kim Kardashian has a lot of the same...

In the aftermath of the Blackhawks' third Stanley Cup in six seasons, team President John McDonough discusses the organization's remarkable success in the eight years since he was hired by Chairman Rocky Wirtz.
Three Stanley Cups in six seasons, could...

Area businesses needed more connectivity than traditional cable lines could provide and asked Comcast to increase the amount of fiber optic cable, said Ken Greene, senior director of market development for Comcast Business.
That led to two miles of new...

Dear Help Squad,
I have been having trouble with my Comcast service since March 2015. It began as a complete outage of all services. Telephone and Internet were restored after about a week. The TV service has never been resolved. It was determined that a...

The rolling Stanley Cup party made its last stop for the night Tuesday at a River North bar, where several Blackhawks marked the occasion by spraying the crowd below with Champagne and sometimes dropping whole bottles of the stuff down to them.
"I...

I'm a concerned citizen. I was shopping at Jewel-Osco at 87th Street and Ridgeland Avenue. There's a large pothole in the parking lot close to the building. I told the customer service manager and two workers in the lot tending to the shopping carts,...